Hi, I just found Kcron, a GUI for the crontab CLI package. I’m trying to add a script but after having all fields filled in the Apply button is still grayed out. Well, I hope I filled out everything:
Package is installed using sudo dnf install kcron. It attaches itself in the KDE system-setting in the chapter Session.
I want the task to be executed every day at the same time so I selected every month, every day of the month and every day of the week, but as can be seen Apply is still gray.
Do I do something wrong or am I missing something?
I want the task to be executed every day at the same time so I selected every month, every day of the month and every day of the week, but as can be seen Apply is still gray.
Do I do something wrong or am I missing something?
Apparently, the ‘Apply’ button is for existing tasks, not new ones. Click ‘New Task’ at the top right after defining the job and Bob’s your uncle.
HTHAL
As an aside, I never have that sort of issue with ‘crontab -e’, but that doesn’t have a confusing gui so I guess YMMV.
Thank you for the solution. I would never have guessed that myself.
I clicked Add to add a task and after everything is filled out I have to click New Task instead of Apply. Apply comes later, after the task is added.
Thank again very much.
Thank you for the solution. I would never have guessed that myself.
They certainly don’t make it very obvious.
I only discovered it as I was clicking around and wanted to see what that button did (Halfway hoping it would let me create a different task that I could click ‘Apply’ on) and it created the task. Who knew?
I’d never used kcron (I was interested as this post mentioned it) before and found the UI to be awkward and confusing
As such, I’ll stick with ‘crontab -e’ as I can use my own editor rather than the KDE GUI.
I did use crontab as well, but some time ago I discovered systemd timers and they work well. One thing is less nice, after making a change you need to restart either the service or the timer itself, whichever you changed.
I also just discovered Kcron and wanted to see how it works, I must say it is pretty easy, with the exception of my problem of course.
